Posted on 11/04/2009 5:42:03 PM PST by Kaslin
Freedom: Young Iranians had a surprise Wednesday for mullah rulers celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: angry protests. Why aren't we giving them more support?
The big hate-America bacchanal was to commemorate the glorious crime against the U.S. 30 years ago, when "student" hoods stormed our sovereign embassy, preened before TV cameras, danced around with rifles and paraded dozens of blindfolded U.S. diplomats, military men and CIA officers as hostages.
Then-President Jimmy Carter, whose sanctimonious refusal to get tough helped lengthen the ordeal to 444 days, enabled these terrorists to consolidate their "revolution," leaving the rotten regime still in power today.
Out went Western dress, competitive education, high culture and the rule of law; in came chadors, Islamofascist indoctrination, arbitrary arrests and whip-wielding revolutionary "vigilance" police.
But something unexpected happened on Wednesday: Iran's democrats, many of them real students, gathered in streets of Tehran to ruin their rulers' party. They shouted "Death to dictators!" instead of "Death to America!"
The Los Angeles Times reported impassioned protests not just in Tehran, but across smaller cities like Rasht, Ahvaz, Mashhad and Tabriz, against this same gang of mullah tyrants who first took Americans hostage.
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Obama can’t make a decision. It’s above his paygrade.
We will never be in a better position to topple the present Iranian regime. But we won’t do it. This is the 1930’s all over again, except that we know the Iranian regime is in a weak position, something we didn’t know about Nazi Germany.
What position is that?
A billion Muslims on the planet would see us dead on any given day, I believe. There is no "better position". Words and alliances won't solve this.
War is war. It's ugly and brutal.
We have allies who don’t want Iran to get a nuclear bomb. We have troops and bases on two sides of Iran. We’ve got an Iranian regime that for the first time has an authentic opposition. The Iranian regime makes a show of military strength, because it is actually insecure. Obama ignores the Iranian opposition, because he would rather be seen as “making peace” with the totalitarian regime of the mullahs.
The Iranian regime is weak. When it starts making nuclear bombs, forget it.
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